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@RegDwight What is flag weight for/mean/do?

You start off with 100. If a moderator judges one of your flags as valid, you get 10 points or something. If a flag of yours gets dismissed as invalid, you lose points.

I was going to edit my most recent typo but realized I deserve the shame it brings. :(

You're currently at 185, so whatever you've been doing, it's been for the better overall.

3:21 PM

@RegDwight Mmk. I am just sort of winging this so let me know if I could be doing something better or make things easier on you.

Yeah, my flag weight's only 160.

@MrHen Well, of course the best thing for you to do would be to get to 20k, like, pronto.

So @Martha throws her weight around?

THWACK!

@Rhodri She's been playing too much Wii Fit lately.

3:23 PM

(And harumph.)

I wish my actual weight was 160. Heck, even 185 would be nice.

@RegDwight Ugh. I think "pronto" may be over-estimating my ability to farm^H^H^H^Hgain rep.

BTW, cross-through is ---farm---, like so: ~~farm~~ gain rep.

@RegDwight Thanks, but I prefer the tech cred.

I figured as much but thought I should ~~brag a little~~ mention it nonetheless.

@RegDwight I actually didn't know that yet, so it was helpful if not practical. :)

3:27 PM

Hm... That could be my motto... @Cerberus: how do I say "extremely helpful though utterly useless" in Latin?

@Martha Ow. (My nervous system is slow today. I blame it on the automounters.)

@RegDwight "Trivial," but in Latin

Mucho triumviratum est?

Something about this answer has my inner pedant up in arms, but I can't figure out what. english.stackexchange.com/questions/4828/…

Not to be a pedant, but it's spelled pedant, not pedent.

3:30 PM

@Rhodri Too many commas and the comma'd portions are not actually helpful.

]:-P

yesterday, by Robusto

Hey, maybe we should have Pedants.SE. Then we could ask about the proper way to do, say, or appreciate anything — just imagine the seething resentment for all the accepted answers.

"required, and correct, " is redundant.

Feb 15 at 19:22, by Martha

Somewhere I have a button that says something like "I'm not anal, I'm a pedant. There's a difference. Let me explain it to you..."

Martha pushing buttons again, tsk, tsk, tsk.

@Martha So it is (now ;-). I must be distracted if I'm ignoring the flyspeller.

3:32 PM

@Rhodri Ack, and like two or three other problems.

@MrHen That's one of my besetting sins as a writer, spraying commas to the winds.

Well, first of all, it could use some formatting. I'm too spoiled and can't parse it as is.

Sorry, I'm trying to do too many things at once. I'd probably better concentrate on the work I'm actually being paid to do for a bit.

Ack, Rhodri is using obscenities in chat! Somebody flag him!

Which is to say, I better go follow his example. TTYL!

No, no, it's fan dance, not a flag dance.

3:36 PM

Wait, when did peer pressure start doing good things to you?

a) I'm not a peer, and b) I'm not that heavy!

@RegDwight — I love to see pedants and sophists go at it.

@Martha Hm, but if we flag him, he'll be forced to concentrate on that obscenity for at least 30 minutes!

Just ask Robusto!

Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes in the band. They are widely considered to be one of the first hardcore punk bands. Black Flag's sound mixed the raw simplicity of the Ramones with atonal guitar solos and frequent tempo shifts. The lyrics were written mostly by Ginn, and like other punk rock bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Black Flag voiced an anti-authoritarian and non-conformist message, in s...

They burned through 17 members in 10 years?

3:41 PM

Not exceptional for hardcore punk bands.

Yeah, not even remotely the record. Trying to find that Wikipedia chart....

Dammit, Guns N' Roses and Sugababes won't stop interfering.

I'm trying to find a list of oddly prophetic last songs by rock artists, but with no luck so far. You know, like Lynyrd Skynyrd's last song was "That Smell" (i.e. the smell of death). I read a list of about 20 uncannily eerie prophecies like that one, but I can't find it on the Web.

stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-237555.html

stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-26090.html

@Robusto The best I could find so far.

Thanks. As amazing as it is, Google can disappoint as well.

3:58 PM

MetaFilter has a thread, too: ask.metafilter.com/14245/Ironic-Song-Titles

But anyhow, I gotta go in a few minutes.